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Deciding whether a baserunner beats a force play is a decision that has to be made in a fraction of a second, and in that split second the ump is trying to watch two different things (the runners foot hitting the bag and the ball reaching the fielders glove). That is a very challenging thing and still images don't do justice to how tough a task it is.
That's not the type of call that was made in the US/Slovenia match. In that game, the call wasn't one requiring hair fine precision. Instead, the ref called a foul. A foul call requires the umpire to see something bad, and if he doesn't see anything then he simply lets play continue.That's where the problem is, the fact that he DID call a foul when the US players didn't do anything. How is that anything like a play at a base where an umpire MUST make a call even if he doesn't have a good view or it's something a human really isn't capable of determing?
Furthermore, the particular situation was very easy on the ref: 1) it was a free kick so the players started out from a stand still 2) the ref could just stand casually instead of running around and 3) he could give himself the optimum position, which meant he could get everyone in his field of view. This was an easy, easy situation for the ref. It wasn't too "chaotic" or whatever for him.
And what does Selective Attention have to do with this? If our only complaint was that he didn't call a foul on the Slovenians, that would make some sense. Okay, maybe somehow he missed the six guys in white wrestling with their opponent, although it still would have been atrocious. But he did more than that, he claimed that an American did something wrong, and that is flat out BS.